The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) cautioned American Muslims in a 22-page Arabic-language paper in 2008 against working in law enforcement in countries which do not rule by Allah’s dictates. One of their main concerns was that such work might cause Muslims to gain love and respect for secular laws:

…there are many evils which result from working in law enforcement, the greatest of which is compelling people to obey rulings which do not come from Allah. It could also cause reverence and love for these rulings to enter the heart of the police officer, and perhaps spread to the hearts of his family members and other Muslims who see him at the mosque or even Muslims in general. They could lose conviction of governance by Allah, and become pleased with a legal system that does not come from Allah. (italics added)

AMJA provided some allowances for Muslims to work in certain law enforcement professions, fearing that a lack of Muslim representation in this sector could bring negative effects for the Muslim community. They also reasoned that Muslims working as police officers might be able to use their positions to help the Muslim community, such as helping out with traffic near their mosques and protecting their mosques. Still, there was concern that some of these might be required to enforce laws contrary to the shari’a, such as “arrest[ing] a Muslim man whose wife said he ‘raped’ her.”

The AMJA paper specifically forbade Muslims from working for the FBI or in national security positions, due to their alleged arbitrary targeting of certain Muslims for “their political beliefs, charity work, or some of their convictions under the shari’a”–an apparent reference to counterterrorism investigations against Muslim suspects.

The paper also made clear that Muslims are to seek justice not in secular courts, but in Islamic courts which are compliant with their shari’a: “It is not permissible to pursue justice in the man-made (i.e. non-Islamic) judiciary, except where there is an absence of a shari’a-compliant substitute capable of restoring one’s rights and working out one’s grievances” (see my translation of another AMJA paper on working in the judiciary here).

Throughout the paper it is made clear that the duty of Muslims is not to uphold and respect the laws of the land in which they reside, but rather to do everything in their power to make the laws of Allah–the shari’a–supreme:

[Muslims are] to seek through legal means which exist in the countries in which they reside to make it possible for themselves to seek legal recourse in their shar’ia, and (not only) for personal affairs.

The duty to make Islam supreme comes above all, even preserving one’s life:

We must remember that preserving the religion comes before preserving one’s self, mind, wealth, honor, or offspring. […] But if saving [the individual’s] life destroys Islam, then saving Islam comes first, even if it means the individual is destroyed. This is the case with jihad against the infidels, and the killing of apostates, and so forth.

It is worth stressing once again that AMJA–whose stated purpose is to “clarify the rulings of the sharia which are relevant for those who live in America”–is a mainstream American Muslim organization. Their membership list contains a large number of highly-influential American imams and Muslim leaders, including Muhammad al-Majid of the Adam Center in Virginia; Hussein Hamed Hassan, director of the financial consultancy firm which advises Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and other large American banking institutions; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, former president of Islamic Circle of North America and current executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America; and the author of this paper, Dr. Hatem al-Haj, MD, PhD, a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, and founder and president of “Building Blocks of Islam.”

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Simplest solution::either recognized and accept prevailing US law or be deported, lock, stock and barrel. Anyone promoting Sharia, even from the pulpit in mosques, same thing. The sooner the better. No exceptions. No excuses. Start with the list above, rest to follow.

Right on! Sharia law is against the US constitution, so how can anyone even contemplate it? The dhimmis in the US (and there are plenty) would scream “we can’t deport them”, why not? In years to come, millions of dhimmis over the entire Western world will wish fervently that they HAD deported them!

We’ve stopped being a country based on integration. Until we stop ESL and Bi-Lingual schools. Until we stop coddling immigrants by ballots, drivers licenses and the like in their ‘native’ language we’ll continue to fragment. My grandparents came here from Germany, they learned English, just what the heck is stopping the Hispanics, the (insert country here) from doing the same? Are they less intelligent or simply too lazy because they don’t have to. As far as freedom of religion goes, it’s the basis of this country, the MoosLoons can have as much Religious freedom as they want but their Religious laws are their laws, not the laws of this nation. If they don’t like it, get the hell out. If they’re not citizens then we can toss their butts out. If they are citizens then they can be found guilty of treason, against the Oath they swore to our Constitution. We win either way.

And in the reverse, one of my sons, an Air Force paralegal, is in Afghanistan assisting, yes assisting, moslemite local leaders in legal matters. Some screwy world we live in. By the way, I sent this to him. I don’t expect comment because of his position.

Clearly immigration law must be revised with a clause that in effect a contract or promisory note stating that they understand there is already existing US law and it is supreme law in the US and that US law is the only law recognized and that there is an absence of any other kind of law and that is they try to apply sharia then they are immediatly deported as in,, the very second a real law enforcement agancy is made aware. If they can’t sign this waiver then they are not allowed to enter the US and will once again,, just be deported and put on the very next plane leaving US airspace.